Admissions Counselor

About the role

The Admissions Counselor plays a crucial role in the admissions team, responsible for developing, implementing, and achieving yearly recruitment plans in a specific region. The role involves building and maintaining relationships with student prospects and their families, managing strategic relationships with key constituents, and supervising a team of student admissions assistants.

Responsibilities

• Moving a segment of regional student prospects to matriculation
• Being accountable for measurable yields
• Necessary communication to achieve the college's overall recruitment goals
• Developing a yearly, region-specific recruiting plan
• Managing strategic working relationships with churches, high schools, and alumni
• Generating short and long-term assignments
• Supervising a team of student admissions assistants
• Fulfilling other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Strong personal oral and written communication skills
• Able to create a sphere of influence with a wide variety of student prospects
• Able to work as a member of a team with ownership of office and institution-wide goals
• Able to relate and work with students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds
• Must have the ability and desire to travel and represent Covenant College positively to a variety of constituencies in diverse settings

Competencies

• Strong personal oral and written communication skills
• Able to create a sphere of influence with a wide variety of student prospects
• Able to work as a member of a team with ownership of office and institution-wide goals
• Able to relate and work with students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds
• Must have the ability and desire to travel and represent Covenant College positively to a variety of constituencies in diverse settings

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• A working knowledge of Covenant College's philosophy of education, history, and academic and co-curricular programs
• Familiarity with the Presbyterian Church in America
• A working knowledge of Google applications and MS Office programs (Word, Excel, etc.), word-processing, and computer aptitude

Skills

• Strong personal oral and written communication skills
• Able to create a sphere of influence with a wide variety of student prospects
• Able to work as a member of a team with ownership of office and institution-wide goals
• Able to relate and work with students from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds
• Must have the ability and desire to travel and represent Covenant College positively to a variety of constituencies in diverse settings

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

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Schedule

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